Scientific Method Take Home Lab

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Summative Test - Chemistry:

• Finding the protons, neutrons, electrons
• Drawing an atom
• Protons, neutrons, electrons, isotopes, Periodic Groups
• Periodic Group Properties
• Periodic Table Groups and Periods
• Acids and Bases
• Qualitative and Quantitative
• Metals/Nonmetals/Metalloids
• Vocabulary words given
• Mendeleev
• Patterns of the Periodic Table
• Number of Atoms in Chemical Formula
• Intro to Law of Conservation of Mass
• Elements

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Extra Credit Homework Project - Speed:

• Materials needed: a random object, tape measure, watch
• Take any object in your home.
• Create a track and measure it.
• Calculate the speed of an object from point A to point B.
• Draw a graph (distance vs. time) of your object.
• This will replace your lowest test grade

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Summative Test - Physics:

Test on Motion, Speed, Slope and Newton's Laws

• Distance vs. Time Graphs
• Velocity vs. Time Graphs
• Acceleration - Graph, Units of Measurement,
• Calculate Acceleration
• Calculate Speed and Average Speed
• Speed, Average Speed, Instantaneous Speed
• Balancing Equations
• Law of Conservation of Mass
• Newton's First Law
• Inertia - Application of Concept
• Forces: Friction, Air Resistance Friction, Gravity, Balanced, Unbalanced
• Units of Measurement for Distance, Time, Velocity and Acceleration
• Graphing Data (how to plot points on a distance vs. time graph)
• Measurement
  • What mass is measure in.
  • Measurement with a ruler and graduated cylinder.
• Constant Velocity

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1st Nine Weeks Test:

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Electromagnetic Spectrum In Class Project:

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Extra Credit Grade or Possible Science Fair Project:

Build One These Power Generators: Solar Oven, Wind Turbine, Hydrogenerator
http://www.re-energy.ca/hydro-generator
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7Sz8oT8ou0

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Design a Solar Powered Object Class Project:

• Bring in items you could use to build your solar powered object
• We will be designing and building these things during class
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Summative Test - Electricity, Renewable and Nonrenewable Resources, Electromagnetic Spectrum
This is a list of topics, key words and skills you should familiarize yourself with. If you feel you have inadequate notes, find someone’s to copy.

Flashcards:
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• Currents
• Simple Circuit (how to build one)
• What is needed to generate electricity?
• Electron’s role in electricity
• Similarities of magnets and batteries
• Mains power supply compared to batteries
• Explain what transformers do
• Direct and alternating currents
• How electricity makes it to your house? (power plant, junction box joins wires together, transformers, transmission lines)
• Symbols for a simple circuit
• Explain how hydroelectric power works (water supply, penstock, turbine, generator, copper wire, electromagnets, transformers, transmission lines)
• Justify why hydroelectric power might be a good alternative to nonrenewable resources like coal, geothermal and natural gases.
• Renewable Resources (hydroelectric power, solar, nuclear and wind)
• Nonrenewable Resources (coal, natural gas, geothermal)
• Fossil Fuels (non-renewable)
• The Power Grid
• Solar Power (photovoltaic cells, inverters, storage batteries)
• Justify why hydroelectric power might be a good alternative to non renewable resources like coal, geothermal and natural gases.
• Electromagnetic Spectrum (radio waves, microwaves, infrared, visible light, ultraviolet, x-rays, gamma rays)
• Know characteristics of the different waves in the EM Spectrum
• Transverse wave

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Incredible Cell Project

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Comparing Selective Breeding to Genetic Engineering

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2nd Nine Weeks Test

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Project - Plate Tectonics

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Life and Earth Science Summative Test

This is a list of topics, key words and skills you should familiarize yourself with. If you feel you have inadequate notes, find someone’s to copy.
Flashcards -
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• Viruses
  • How We Catch A Virus
  • Symptoms
  • Common Viruses: Cold, Flu, Rabies, Pneumonia, Chicken Pox, AIDS
• Fungi
  • Conditions needed to grow
  • Spores
  • What they feed on: glucose
  • How spores are transported
  • The role of fungi in nature: Decomposers and Recyclers
  • Traits: Eukaryotic with cell walls, heterotrophs with similar means of feeding, spores for reproduction
  • Yeast - Unicellular
• Cellular Respiration
  • Products of Cellular Respiration: Carbon Dioxide, Water, Heat Energy
  • Formula for Cellular Respiration: C6H12O6 + 6O2 → 6CO2 + 6H2O + Energy
  • How yeast breaks down sugars: enzymes
• Unicellular Organisms
  • Bacteria
    • How they multiply: Duplication of chromosomes, then division of cells
    • Insulin: How it's made using bacteria
    • Cleaning up oil with bacteria
• Lithosphere/Asthenosphere
  • Label the Layers of the Earth
  • Convection Currents: How they make the plates move
  • Sea floor spreading
  • Convergent, Divergent, Transform boundaries
  • Subduction Zone (convergent)
  • San Andreas Fault: transform fault
  • Himalayas: convergent boundary
  • Thickness of crust: 25 miles thick
  • Thickness of mantle: 1700 miles thick
  • Density of oceanic crust compared to continental (oceanic is more dense)
• Volcanoes
  • Hot Spots
    • Hawaii
    • Not at plate boundaries
  • Convergent Boundaries/Subuction Zones
  • Sea floor spreading
  • Vocabulary: Magma, lava, vent, lahar, pyroclastic flow, tephra, magma chamber, Ring of Fire, crater, Caldera
  • How Volcanoes Erupt: Gases separate from the molten rock in the crust and create pressure and force that pushes the magma upward during an eruption.
  • Predicting a Volcano's Eruption:
    • Releasing of gases like carbon dioxide and sulfur dioxide
    • Earthquakes
  • Dormant
  • Active
  • Shield Volcanoes - Hawaii
• Earthquakes and Volcanoes
  • Seismograph
  • S-Wave
  • P-Wave
  • Earthquakes Predict Volcanoes

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